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Hi, I have a steel framed building with a metal profile roof, I want to insulate it and board over it to stop any condensation dripping. Want to use it as a games room, so it will have heating. Its the usual industrial unit type of building. I was thinking of sprayfoaming it but looking at the...

Hi, Ive just changed our kitchen sink and tap. The new tap I fitted ( wrong tap ) required more pressure than my gravity fed system provided & as such the hot water flow was obviously slow. Today I replaced the tap with one that requires 0.1 bar,this has helped. Both taps are mono blocks with...

Hi, I want to move the cold water tank in the loft over to a new location. This will mean that the tank will not be directly vertically above the hot water cylinder which is in an airing cupboard downstairs, it would end up having some of the feed pipe to the cylinder being horizontal. Would...

As title says, oil boiler locking out. Only does it first thing in a morning or on it's second run of the day at night. What happens is it starts the fan or motor clicks as if its going to fire then locks out. The "only" way to get it going is to press the reset button and straight away keep...

Hi, I want to replace our crap Sterling burner with a Riellor. Is there a direct riellor replacement to replace a Sterling elecro oil 50 if so what riellor model ?.

Hi, I hope someone may be able to offer some help. I have a cleaning machine with 2 large vac motors ( 1400 watts ). One of them runs fine and smooth for a few minutes and then trips the house circuit breaker. I have removed the motor, took the carbon brushes out, cleaned it all and put it...

Hi all, My boiler ( with Sterling burner ) started locking out from cold. Pressing the reset button made the motor run etc but failed to ignite and obviously locked out again. The only way I could make it run is by pressing the reset button and then turning the stat/on/off rotary control...

Please don't shoot me down here but, I'm probably wrong but would like to hear your expert opinions. I want to balance my central heating system because we have moved and added rads etc. I have read the guide to doing it in the forums faq's and will use this method if my idea is rubbish...

Hi, We have built a wooden framed outbuiding/garage of approx 700 sq ft. It is built with 6x6 pressure treated posts with 6x2 joists then 3x2 pearlings to support the box section metal roof panels. The panels are galvanised not plastic coated. The floor is concrete and has visqene underneath...

I have a light/fan in the conservatory in which the bulb went. I put a new bulb in ( actually an old one as I had no new ones at the time ) as I put it in it flashed and went straight out. Then I got a new bulb and nothing will work now. I checked the switch and all is OK from the switch to the...

I have fitted a bathroom suite in our loft conversion, previously it only had an electric shower, WC & small basin. I have fitted a bath, WC and new basin. Because it's a bungalow and the cylinder is downstairs and cylinder feed tank is in loft I had great problems in getting the hot to flow...

I have 12 rads. An Oil Boiler. All in a large bungalow which also has 2 X upstairs bedrooms and a bathroom ( derived from a loft conv ) My boiler has a dial ranging from 60 - 90. To ( I think foolishly ) save Oil I set the boiler stat to 70 ( ish). This eventually caused the room stat...

I cant find anywhere that sell split foam lagging for 10mm heating pipes, would it be any good using the 15mm lagging and cable tieing it tight ?. Also, these pipes are under my house (wood floors) and some are exposed. Will there be a significant heat loss/£ loss ?. Some of the pipes are...

Hi When the central heating pump starts up I can hear a whooshing sound or a running of water sound in the area of both the pump and cylinder ( both are in the same cupboard. There is one motorised valve there also which appears to be working correctly. It seems to take the cylinder longer than...

Hi all, What is the easiest way for me to change to a wireless stat/timer. At present I have the boiler in the utility room, the timer in the airing cupboard ( Honeywell ST7199 ) and the standard rotary Honeywell stat in the hall but near the airing cupboard.

I read somewhere that if the lever n a zone valve is put to the Manual position it should then move back to the Auto position when the system starts up as normally i.e. when the programmer tells it to. On mine, I went to drain it down to clean it out and noticed the lever was in the manual...

Whats the best way of draining down a vented Heating system after running Fernox F3 through the system, the system has a motorised valve and I thought that maybe just doing a standard drain down would not cause it to be fully emptied since the motor valve would be closed as the boiler would be...

I have a 12 radiator system fired with a Merlin oil boiler 85,000 Btu's. What would be the best settings, the room stat is in the hall and I dont have any TRV's. I want it to be nice & warm throughout. At the moment I have the room stat set at about 21 and the dial on the boiler at 75. It goes...

Hi, I am trying to balance my rads, unforntunaley the plastic caps are missing so I'm not sure which is the lockshield valve. Is it on the flow as I think ?. Whats the easiest best way to identify and adjust. Thanks in anticipation.

I have bottle vent valves on both the hot water cylinder & the boiler. On top of these are what looks like a car tyre dust cap. I have had to drain the system down and on refilling it should I remove the dust caps ?. I did and air , then water came out. The water only really stopped fully when...